China's per capita GDP has topped ten thousand yuan, or some 12 hundred US dollars.

The National Development and Reform Commission says China's GDP also hit a new high of more than 13.6 trillion yuan, or about 1.6 trillion US dollars by 2004, when compared with the planned 12.5 trillion yuan, or 1.5 trillion US dollars, by 2005.

It adds the country's GDP has grown by 8.6 percent over the past four years, 1.6 percent higher than expected.

(CRI News)